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Vanessa Lengies Latest News

Birth Name:Vanessa Brittany Lengies

Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession Actress, Soundtrack

Keck's Exclusives: Vanessa Lengies on Leaving Glee and Landing a New Sitcom

Fox's Glee will be a little less sweet next season now that Vanessa Lengies, who plays Sugar, has landed a regular role on the midseason ABC sitcom Mixology. "Getting to play Sugar Motta was one of the biggest opportunities of my life, and I met some of the most fantastic people, but I was being hired per episode," Lengies says about why she made the switch. "I loved getting to be there and dancing around, but I didn't really have much of an opportunity to act."

Mon, May 20, 2013

Keck's Exclusives: Vanessa Lengies on Leaving Glee and Landing a New Sitcom

Glee's Vanessa Lengies on Sugar's Big Breadstix Bash and McKinley's New Love Triangle

Move over, Sam and Shane. There's a new romantic rivalry heating up the hallways of McKinley High on Glee just in time for Valentine's Day. "Sugar is going to be in the middle of a love triangle," Vanessa Lengies tells TVGuide.com. "Rory and Artie fight back and forth the entire time for Sugar's hand." In Tuesday's episode (8/7c, Fox), Sugar's dad throws her a huge party at Breadstix — soon to be renamed Sugar Shack — in honor of her favorite holiday. All of New Directions is invited to the bash — but not without one stern marching order from their hostess: No singles allowed! Glee sneak peek: Samuel Larson make his debut! Plus: Rachel's dad arrive! The warning is odd considering Sugar herself has been riding solo since she first popped up in September. However, her sudden desire for a date will...

Tue, Feb 14, 2012

Glee's Vanessa Lengies on Sugar's Big Breadstix Bash and McKinley's New Love Triangle

Cheers & Jeers: Glee's Not-So-Sweet Sugar

Jeers to Glee for making an off-key addition to the cast.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!In last week's season opener, Vanessa Lengies joined the show as Sugar Motta, a tone-deaf student in more ways than one. Her attribution for her lack of social graces to "self-diagnosed Asperger's" had autism-awareness advocates up in arms. Well, Sugar was back ...

Wed, Sep 28, 2011

Cheers & Jeers: Glee's Not-So-Sweet Sugar

Glee Adds American Dreams' Vanessa Lengies

Glee is adding another new cast member to its roster for Season 3. American Dreams vet Vanessa Lengies will recur on the Fox musical as Sugar, a spoiled new student described as...

Thu, Aug 11, 2011

Glee Adds American Dreams' Vanessa Lengies

Pilot News: Dreams Girl Feels the Hurt

Vanessa Lengies, who in my semi-humble opinion was one of the very best things about American Dreams, has joined the cast of the ABC comedy pilot This Might Hurt. In the prospective medical practice-set series, says the Reporter, Lengies will play Lily, a receptionist who is "sweet, naive and disarmingly sincere" and has a strange predilection for go-go boots.  MWM

Thu, Apr 17, 2008

Fall 2007: Everwood Exec Taps Charmed One

New pilot castings, from the Hollywood Reporter: Alyssa Milano has been tapped to star as a successful Atlanta lawyer  and the daughter of Mary Steenburgen  in Everwood exec producer Rina Mimoun's untitled drama for ABC. Angie Harmon, who starred in the never-picked-up ABC pilot Secrets of a Small Town, has joined the Alphabet's Women's Murder Club. Brian Austin Green is a gay writer, and Vanessa Lengies (American Dreams) and Jessica Capshaw are women who work with him, in a comedy pilot from Will & Grace's Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. Liz Vassey is a biotech whiz in Fox's The Cure. Johnny Messner is a hotheaded cop in ABC's Judy's Got a Gun. Bruce McGill (Animal House's D-Day) is military in NBC's Area 52 comedy. Will Yun Lee (Thief) is a field operative in NBC's The Bionic Woman. Wherefore art thou Oscar Goldman?

Fri, Feb 23, 2007